Hitachi at SemEval-2022 Task 2: On the Effectiveness of Span-based Classification Approaches for Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection

Atsuki Yamaguchi, Gaku Morio, Hiroaki Ozaki, Yasuhiro Sogawa


Abstract
In this paper, we describe our system for SemEval-2022 Task 2: Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding. The task aims at detecting idiomaticity in an input sequence (Subtask A) and modeling representation of sentences that contain potential idiomatic multiword expressions (MWEs) (Subtask B) in three languages. We focus on the zero-shot setting of Subtask A and propose two span-based idiomaticity classification methods: MWE span-based classification and idiomatic MWE span prediction-based classification. We use several cross-lingual pre-trained language models (InfoXLM, XLM-R, and others) as our backbone network. Our best-performing system, fine-tuned with the span-based idiomaticity classification, ranked fifth in the zero-shot setting of Subtask A and exhibited a macro F1 score of 0.7466.
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2022.semeval-1.15
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)
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July
Year:
2022
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Seattle, United States
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Guy Emerson, Natalie Schluter, Gabriel Stanovsky, Ritesh Kumar, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Siddharth Singh, Shyam Ratan
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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135–144
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.semeval-1.15
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.15
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Atsuki Yamaguchi, Gaku Morio, Hiroaki Ozaki, and Yasuhiro Sogawa. 2022. Hitachi at SemEval-2022 Task 2: On the Effectiveness of Span-based Classification Approaches for Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), pages 135–144, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Hitachi at SemEval-2022 Task 2: On the Effectiveness of Span-based Classification Approaches for Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection (Yamaguchi et al., SemEval 2022)
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